The Symbolic Story of Nephi and Laban
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How should we respond to a command from God? · Nephi, Sam, Laman, and Lemuel return to Jerusalem to retrieve the brass plates from Laban · It ...
**Nephi doesn't just cut off Laban's head with the sword. He goes one up on David–he then puts on Laban's garments, and becomes Laban, even so ...
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The story begins in Jerusalem about 600 BC and then continues in the New World. In his telling, Nephi shifts chronology, flattens the characters of his ...
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Nephi flees into the wilderness and then he begins fashioning replicas of the sword of Laban, and it's at that point in the narrative that Nephi ...
Joseph story as it might apply to us, and undermine the significance ... suggests that the story of Nephi killing Laban is given so prominently and in such.
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In the next scene of the story, the Lord delivers Laban into Nephi's hands and commands Nephi to slay Laban, which Nephi does not want to do.
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In the next chapter, Nephi and his brothers are commanded by God through Lehi to go back to Jerusalem to get the brass plates from Laban. When ...
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An aspect of the Laban killing that is missing from the discussion is the part that clearly indicates that Nephi seriously hesitated to kill ...
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There are also subtle parallels to Joseph of Egypt. Nephi gives us a quick summary of Joseph's story and tells us 3 times that Lehi's family ...
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The brass plates are kept by a man named Laban, who refuses Lehi's sons' requests. Nephi returns after that refusal and finds Laban lying drunk in the street.
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"We do not know the ethnic background or bloodline of Zoram, the true friend of Nephi. Being a servant to Laban suggests he was not of the blood ...
There's lots that could be said about this chapter and Nephi's killing of Laban. As Elder Holland has pointed out, the fact that this is so near ...
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The Nephi vs. Laban story is an updating of the David vs. Goliath story for the Lehites. As Book of Mormon scholar Ben McGuire has so ably ...
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In addition to being a fatally convincing tool for Laban, it also was on Nephi's hip as he pretended to be Laban as he then convinced Laban's ...
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In our continuing quest of studying the pseudo coincidences in the Book of Mormon you can find a familiar story of when Nephi beheaded Laban.
3 For behold, Laban hath the record of the Jews and also a genealogy of my forefathers, and they are engraven upon plates of brass. verse 3 In what sense is the ...
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This story, like Nephi's slaying of Laban, also helps confirm the Lord's promise that Nephi would be a teacher and ruler over his brothers (2 ...
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But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.' Now, Nephi clearly fits into ...
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Nephi seems to show that he had deeply imbibed the Moses exodus story because he brings it up with his brothers (at the very beginning of their ...